PML-N emerges as a major party in 2013 general elections with 181 seats in National assembly. The newly elected members will take oath on 1st of June and the elected Prime Minister would take oath of his/ her position on 5th of June. However these elections have presented a kind of novelty to Pakistan political [...]
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Many enthusiasts say it is an Asian Century. The region has a bigger population than the combined population of all other continents. According to the U.S. intelligence community report – Global Trends 2030 – Asia will wield more global power in terms of GDP, military spending and investment than the United States and Europe combined, [...]
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By Dr. S.Chandrasekharan. It is very unfortunate that almost all the political parties except the MDP are using religion as a political tool to keep former president Nasheed from winning the presidential elections this September. Their main thrust in the election campaign is that all the parties are out to save Islam from Nasheed and [...]
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In an article published recently by the Diario 5/Dias, Asuncion, Paraguay had emerged as the only country in the region expected to have a steady growth of 4.7 percent in the next four years. According to a report by the International Monetary Fund and the Paraguayan Ministry of Finances, the national forecast is that the [...]
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School should be starting soon and every parent will be looking for the best private-aided school for their child. Everyone wants to give the best of education to their child and truly believe that private aided schools are better than their municipal counterpart. However, the view that private schools are better than municipal schools was [...]
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Last week in New Delhi, the Afghan President Karzai raised the bogey of a more ‘active’ Indian involvement in Afghanistan’s security. While across the border, the Chinese Premier Li committed to improve the connectivity of Gwadar port to realize the Pakistani dream of turning the port into a regional trade hub for China, Afghanistan and [...]
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A decision by European soccer body UEFA to grant Gibraltar the right of membership potentially opens the door to Kurdistan to seek association with the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) in a move that would acknowledge demands for increased autonomy and the possible shifting of national borders in the Middle East as a result of a [...]
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A new report published Tuesday as part of the Sustainable Energy for All (SE4ALL) initiative finds that a population four times the size of the United States still lives without access to electricity, holding back global economic development, and that, despite efforts to limit climate change, fossil fuels still account for more than 80% of [...]
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The rise of civilian militias to combat lawlessness will make it harder than ever to defeat the cartels unless the government regulates the vigilantes, warns the International Crisis Group. Crisis Group’s latest briefing, Justice at the Barrel of a Gun: Vigilante Militias in Mexico, examines the rapid expansion this year of civilian armed groups that [...]
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(EurActiv) — Britain and France are free to supply weapons to Syrian rebels fighting President Bashar al-Assad starting in August, after attempts to renew an EU arms embargo on Syria failed yesterday (27 May). After a marathon negotiating session in Brussels, EU governments failed to bridge their differences and let a ban on arming the [...]
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By Lucia Pivetta On Tuesday, 28 May, Professor Li Jie, Deputy President of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), delivered a lecture titled “China-Turkey Relations” at USAK House. The lecture’s main themes were bilateral relations between the two countries in question, the trajectory of China’s economic development, the difficulties in that trajectory and their [...]
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By Lucia Pivetta The European Union (EU) is the world’s most well-known example of regional integration but Southeast Asia could be next to prosper into a dynamic powerhouse, as it is currently going to great lengths to boost regional trade and unite into an international economic bloc. Southeast Asia includes countries as economically diverse as [...]
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By Azad Garibov For more than a decade after the 9/11 attacks, the war in Afghanistan has been the point of reference for U.S. policy toward Central Asia. American military bases in the region and the region’s role in facilitating the supply chain for U.S. and NATO troops were the chief concerns of U.S. policy [...]
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A newborn infant has been rescued from a toilet pipe in eastern China after being allegedly flushed down by his parents. Firefighters plucked the baby boy from a pipe section right under the toilet commode. The pipe was cut away piece by piece to reveal the screaming newborn, who was wedged in tight. On Saturday, [...]
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“The bankers in Tokyo tell me there is a widespread mindset of panic among institutional holders of Japanese Government Bonds (JGBs) and that can’t be a good thing. Panic tends inevitably to lead to crisis, and goodness knows, global financial markets could hardly deal with another crisis without contagion on a massive scale.” Reuters commentary [...]
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If ever the nation of Sri Lanka stood united wherein all factions of society whatever their opposing views came together to say NO – that was when India forced Sri Lanka’s then President J R Jayawardena to sign the Indo-Lanka Accord on 29 July 1987 threatening to invade Sri Lanka if it did not do [...]
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By Rana Divyank Chaudhary Much attention is riveted on the way in which India-China relations are shaping up in the aftermath of the PLA’s incursion into Ladakh. The incident would probably not have stood out had the new Chinese Premier, Li Keqiang, not already chosen New Delhi to be his first destination abroad. Even as [...]
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NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen told Libya’s Prime Minister Ali Zeidan on Monday that the Alliance was proud of the role NATO played to protect the Libyan people and to fulfill the historic mandate of the United Nations Security Council. Stressing NATO’s expertise in the reform of security and defence sectors, especially when it [...]
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Russia and NATO will conduct a joint naval exercise in the Black Sea this coming fall, Russia’s envoy to NATO said on Tuesday. The exercise, to be held under the aegis of the NATO-Russia Council, is part of the Cooperative Airspace Initiative, Russia’s NATO envoy Alexander Grushko told a news conference at RIA Novosti. The [...]
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The designs for more than two dozen major weapons systems used by the United States military have fallen into the hands of the Chinese, US Department of Defense officials say. Blueprints for the Pentagon’s most advanced weaponry, including the Black Hawk helicopter and the brand new Littoral Combat Ship used by the Navy, have all [...]
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